This conference is a follow-up to the Texas LP's Fall series of conferences designed to empower Libertarian activists. But this one promises "new material in a unique format" and it's also interactive, which means that all participants are urged to bring their laptops.

The Mock Convention, described in news releases only as "FUN!" is apparently a practice run for convention newbies.

The serious Libertarian Conventioneering begins on March 11 in North Texas and throughout Lone Star Land and culminates in Temple during a three-day stretch in April at the Libertarian Party of Texas 2014 State Convention.

And none of this, Libertarians proudly point out to the public, involves spending anyone's ill-gotten tax money.

All of these conventions, with the possible exception of the Mock Convention, tie together in a sort of sequential gulag of conventions filled with nominating and voting for candidates and delegates and local party officers and party platform changes that all culminates in the big one in April.

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Garry Reed is a longtime freelance libertarian journalist. His current book "Tyranny Fighters: The Julian Heicklen Chronicles" is a collection of over 70 articles originally written for his Libertarian News Examiner and Dallas Libertarian Examiner columns between October 2009 and June 2012 that closely tracked Julian Heicklen and his Tyranny Fighters as they contended with America's anti-freedom police state tactics in their jury rights outreach efforts. Contact Reed at reedcannon@aol.com.